<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div class="" style="">Dear Trnsys Users,</div><div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">I am looking at the effect of heat extraction and dissipation to the performance of heat pump and </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">also to the ground temperature distribution over time. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><br class=""
style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">I am using the ground heat exchanger type 557 to simulate the ground temperature variation.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">I have 176 energy piles, 26m deep.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">10 piles connected in series.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">so my question is:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">What is the number of radial regions, and number of vertical regions?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-style:
normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">how do I find out how many radial and vertical regions I need?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">Regards,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">Metkel</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px;
font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">Metkel Yebiyo BEng (Hons), MSc<o:p class="" style=""></o:p></div><div class="" style="">CEREB PhD Researcher - Ground Source Heat Pumps <o:p class="" style=""></o:p></div><div class="" style="">Room T615 <o:p class="" style=""></o:p></div><div class="" style="">Department of Urban Engineering <o:p class="" style=""></o:p></div><div class="" style="">Faculty of Engineering, Science and the Built Environment<o:p class="" style=""></o:p></div><div class="" style="">London South Bank University, <o:p class="" style=""></o:p></div><div class="" style="">103 Borough Road,<o:p class="" style=""></o:p></div><div class="" style="">London SE1 0AA<o:p class="" style=""></o:p></div><div class="" style="">Tel: +44 (0)20 7815 7639<o:p class="" style=""></o:p></div><div
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